Backup, bread! It’s cheesecake’s time to shine! Last week, women in Japan comparing their chubby wubby baby’s arms to pull apart bread was all the rage. Now the spotlight shifts to cheesecake, nearly two months before National Cheesecake Day. So, what gives? The delicious dessert is being used to tackle fat-shaming.
Twitter user “2 Pump Chump” tried to fat shame an overweight high school student by likening her gorgeous prom picture to a strawberry cheesecake. While he says he meant the young woman looked “good enough to eat,” others felt the meme was born out of malice because of the “dead” emojis he used. For anyone old enough to remember when Morgan Freeman was young, using the “dead” emoji typically means you laughed so hard that you died. Kids and their dumb ways of communication, right?
Anyway, thanks to to Twitter user @SpokenELLE, #CompareYourselfToCheeseCake2016 is turning the negative meme into a positive. “This asshole compared a girl to a cheesecake so now we’re all comparing ourselves to cheesecake ? join us,” tweeted Elle about the movement.
And that’s exactly what people are doing — posting side-by-side pictures of themselves and yummy cheesecakes as an F-U to the “assh*le” who inadvertently started the trend. And who knew so many people looked like cheesecake?! Strawberry, blueberry, chocolate, multi-colored. Cheesecake galore!
https://twitter.com/spokenELLE/status/724755116075573248
https://twitter.com/Eva_Sunshine420/status/725045102180192256
I'm dead #CompareYourselfToCheesecake2016 pic.twitter.com/jSckSpd36U
— narcolepsy queen (@wifi_wanderer) April 26, 2016
Im just gonna repost this with the hashtag because I forgot it the first time 😎 #compareyourselftocheesecake2016 pic.twitter.com/Zg9ad8yv3s
— 𝔧𝔲𝔫𝔦 (@faketeeth_) April 26, 2016
https://twitter.com/edamommmy/status/724986357924270080
The #compareyourselftocheesecake2016 is the reason the Internet exists. pic.twitter.com/XIoSh8t0YC
— Katy Hamm (@katyhamm) April 26, 2016
@spokenELLE This thread made me cry! You're the best. #compareyourselftocheesecake2016 pic.twitter.com/LAROTUqP9C
— Sienna (@ItsJewsie) April 26, 2016
https://twitter.com/snobwithablog/status/724737823417458688
@spokenELLE lmfao this is the greatest thread to exist #compareyourselftocheesecake2016 pic.twitter.com/f8OaUFsKEX
— 🥀 (@vaasshappeniin) April 26, 2016
https://twitter.com/snobwithablog/status/724737823417458688
https://twitter.com/andreajrosario/status/724734223752396802
https://twitter.com/Wellspokentoken/status/724724383126683651
@spokenELLE well look at that #compareyourselftocheesecake2016 pic.twitter.com/cCjuqZYf8m
— Noelle (@staticlown) April 25, 2016
https://twitter.com/strOberrybOmpi/status/724712204134658048
https://twitter.com/LootLove/status/724710589319225344
Okay, it’s a response to fat-shaming, but is anyone else feeling a little ravenous?